Fans of James Buchanan, the largely ineffective President before Lincoln, who was the one to allow the first Southern States to secede on the eve of the American Civil War, have reason to cheer.
In the latest historian poll on ranking American Presidents through history, Buchanan is not last among Oval Office occupiers.
It is the Stable Genius Donald Trump, the Chief Executive who infamously killed Roe v Wade, mishandled the COVID-19 epidemic, lied with stunning regularity, was impeached twice, and enabled the January 6 Domestic Terrorist attack on the Nation's Capitol that is at the cellar of the Presidential Ranking system.
President Joe Biden, the one who has worked since day one to clean up the various messes left by his Mad King Predecessor and pass significant legislation lifting people up and moving the country forward is ranked 14, just behind Bill Clinton and John Adams.
The top ten Presidents in the latest historian poll are:
- Abraham Lincoln
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- George Washington
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Thomas Jefferson
- Harry Truman
- Barack Obama
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- John F Kennedy
Please click here to see the full rankings.
One thing to remember about these polls is that historians are always adjusting their perspective on the quality of these Chief Executives in lieu of the times they served and the contemporary period of the current ranking. Other factors include new biographical studies on the nation's Chief Executives. That is why you see Presidents like Lyndon Johnson, for his domestic policy achievements, and Ulysses S. Grant, for his efforts during Reconstruction and going after the Ku Klux Klan, climbing in the polls and others like Native American Persecutors Andrew Jackson and James Polk dropping.
Other Presidents, because of their many profound contributions to the country, will rightfully forever be ranked at or near the top like Presidents Lincoln, FDR, and Washington while others like Mr. 'I killed Roe v Wade,' Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Hoover, Mr. George W. Bush, and Mr. Nixon, who largely did the country great disservice, will always be justifiably ranked at or towards the bottom.
That is another reason why children and adults should always remember the history of this country and others.
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